"The El Niño Factor," Discover (Jan.) by Carl Zimmer. Mark Cane (Columbia Univ.), Chet Ropelewski (NOAA/NWS), Tony Busalacchi (NASA GSFC), and Kevin Trenberth (NCAR) are working to isolate the factors that have the greatest impact on El Niño to better predict future events.
"Warming Reasons Elusive," The Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 14) by Robert C. Cowen. R. Steven Nerem (U. Texas-Austin) discusses how change in sea-level rise is a short-term result of El Niño based on the data from the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite.
"Satellites to Monitor Volcanoes," San Francisco Chronicle (Dec. 10) by David Perlman. Luke P. Flynn and Peter Mouginis-Mark (U. Hawaii) are using the infrared sensors on Geostationary Environmental Satellites (GOES) as thermometers to find "hot spots" on active volcanoes in North and South America. Flynn and Mouginis-Mark were also featured in Discovery Channel Online (Dec. 10), Reuters (Dec. 9), and The London Times (Dec. 8).
"Glacial Ice is Slip-sliding Away," Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 10) by Colin Woodward. Robert Bindschadler (NASA GSFC) and David Vaughan (British Antarctic Survey) monitor the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
"Study Looks at Landscape Changes," Associated Press (Dec. 9) by Joseph B. Verrengia. Jonathan Foley (U. Wisconsin), Roger Pielke (Colorado State), and Elfatih Eltahir (MIT) are examining how landscape changes affect regional climate and how these changes have influenced climate shifts throughout history.
"Will Humans Overwhelm the Earth?," New York Times (Dec. 8) by Malcolm W. Browne. Compton Tucker (NASA GSFC) analyzes the images of Earth taken by Landsat to look at anthropogenic changes.
"Humans Not to Blame for Sahara," Reuters (Nov. 24). Compton Tucker (NASA GSFC) noticed, by observing satellite data, that drought conditions (not human activity) were to blame for the environmental change in the Sahara between 1980 and 1997.
"Satellite Limits," Earth & Sky radio program (Oct. 30). Claire Parkinson (NASA GSFC) explains how satellites receive data by measuring the amount of radiation the object gives off.
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